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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she raised concerns over China's human rights records during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that focused on North Korea and Iran's nuclear...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the recent UN Security Council resolution on North Korea passed in the wake of its nuclear test is a precedent-setting instance of aggressive collective action against would-be...

Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng has been charged with inciting subversion of state power , according to a statement by his lawyer. Gao has been detained without access to his lawyer, Mo Shaoping, since August...

Iran Sunday condemned a bill signed into law by President Bush Saturday authorizing US sanctions against foreign governments that provide support for Iran's nuclear program or contribute towards the country's armament. The Iran Freedom Support...

Amnesty International said Thursday that China has not been working quickly enough to meet its promise to improve human rights in the country in order to host the 2008 Olympic Games...

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal Wednesday upheld a 2005 ruling that laws prohibiting gay sex are unconstitutional and discriminatory and violate Hong Kong's Basic Law and the Bill of...

China's Supreme People's Court has promulgated new rules aimed at preventing leaks of information regarding sensitive cases, and has established a system whereunder all court information will flow through court spokesmen, 65 of whom have already been...

International human rights groups have denounced China's release of new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations, which give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of...

Measures for Administering the Release of News and Information in China by Foreign News Agencies, People's Republic of China, September 10, 2006 [giving China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of approval over the distribution and release of foreign news...

China Sunday released new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of approval over the distribution and release of...